Example sentences of "would have [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added that Mr Major would have warned the Queen that she risked being dragged into a political storm . |
| 2 | With a normal take-off the glider would have cleared the obstruction . |
| 3 | The ace of clubs would have defeated the contract out of hand but East mysteriously returned a diamond . |
| 4 | Some such process may have been originally responsible for the separation of England and France by the formation of the Straits of Dover , although this would have involved the breaching of a much broader barrier than the Purbeck-Isle of Wight ridge . |
| 5 | Is not it clear that a party which , a few years ago , was offering to do a deal with the Soviet leadership that would have involved the sacrifice of 100 per cent . |
| 6 | The former was never seriously in the running , for it would have involved the demolition of the caretaker 's house and garage , removed the First Forms ' playground and provided no new classrooms : indeed , if built , it would have rendered the 1937 extension itself too dark for further use . |
| 7 | It would have involved the country 's first overseas military deployment since 1945 , and was opposed by the domestic opposition and by several of Japan 's Asian neighbours . |
| 8 | The official report states : ‘ To have forced his way into Benghazi when the enemy was obviously ready for him would have achieved nothing and would have involved the loss of his force . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You cow , ’ cried Sam , without malice : only a few months ago she would have pressed the plum into her friend 's hair , but now she threw it on to the pavement where it lay easily among the cabbage stalks and traces of vomit . |
| 10 | Either of them would have grabbed the hand . |
| 11 | This erm approach would have enabled the council to obtain some capital receipts under the terms of the chancellor 's Autumn statement . |
| 12 | She did not know how long she would have to carry the child , or when it would be born ; she had no one to ask except Mrs Seager , who was still insistent that they go soon . |
| 13 | He was n't obliged to follow his own scenario any more , but he knew he would have to obey the voice now . |
| 14 | Probably Tolkien would have accepted the thesis ( not unfamiliar to medievalists ) that all great works of fiction should contain a kernel scene or a ‘ lyric core ’ : to use the terminology of Marie de France , whose ‘ Breton lays ’ Tolkien imitated in ‘ Aotrou and Itroun ’ , 1945 , every conte or story comes from a lai or song . |
| 15 | She would have accepted the situation as it was . |
| 16 | Lily supposed the tartans to be fictitious : no self-respecting Scot would have accepted the commission if real clans were to be insulted . |
| 17 | If Carson had been predictably agreeable and obviously interested she would have accepted the lift and that , apart perhaps from the promise of a follow-up lunch some time , would have been the end of it . |
| 18 | She had hoped that Rosie Lane at least , who was usually willing to try anything once , would have accepted the challenge , but she demurred , pleading a headache , and Janice told her , in mysterious tones , as though provided with obscene , private information , that she would be mad to go to such a place , that it was rough there , and wicked beyond all Clara 's pitiful conceptions of wickedness , and that if she went there anything might happen to her . |
| 19 | If the will had been there and secure accommodation and prison accommodation had been available , I suggest that magistrates would have applied the law in the way that was intended when that legislation was passed . |
| 20 | Defending solicitor Mr. Blundell asked the magistrates to consider whether Mr. Thurgood would have played the part of peacemaker and then gone out and attacked the soldiers ' car . |
| 21 | An incurable optimist , she was sure that they would find some way of making their living , but she knew that her sister was afraid they would n't — and in that case , of course , they would have to let the cottage , and separate after all . |
| 22 | If anyone had challenged Frederica directly as to whether she believed that , she would have argued the toss . |
| 23 | Analysis of these projects suggested that if such control were to be achieved , local people would have to acquire the motivation and skills to be able to organize themselves into effective action groups able to negotiate with public authorities . |
| 24 | The Deputy Chief Constable , in his parade uniform , would have to manage the inspection without the assistance of his head of C.I.D . |
| 25 | Normally , unless you have one of these keys , you would have to call the water company 's engineers if you wanted the mains turned off for any reason — perhaps to work on the mains stopcock inside the house . |
| 26 | Then they would have to sell the farm . |
| 27 | Few Europeans would have contested the view that they should be organized politically in sovereign states . |
| 28 | This criterion was strictly interpreted : litigants would have to persuade the court that the decision had ‘ no rational basis whatsoever , ’ and not surprisingly few managed to do so . |
| 29 | It can be no accident that the opinion of the police officer is now sought on matters which once would have remained the province of the archbishop and his clergy . |
| 30 | Under the Working Paper 's proposals , therefore , vaginal penetration by the penis would have remained the focus of sexual offences legislation . |